THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY College of Music presents
Guest Artist Recital of
Erin Rogers, Saxophone with Geoffrey Deibel, Saxophone
Friday, November 15, 2024
7:30 p.m. | Lindsay Recital Hall
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PROGRAM
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Alex Mincek (b. 1975)
Erin Rogers and Geoff Deibel, tenor saxophone
Based in New York City, Erin Rogers is a Canadian-American composer and saxophonist dedicated to new and experimental music. Named a “rising star” (Broadway World), her music has been described as “whimsical, theatrical” (Brooklyn Vegan), “a wild ride” (An Earful), “as chilling as it is funny” (Lucid Culture) and “so complex, it’s primitive” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). Her works explore the intersection of chamber music, sound alchemy, and theatre, using vocals, improvisation, and performance practice to inform timbre, gesture, and theme, moving freely between acoustic and electronic worlds.
Rogers’ works have been featured at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), Roulette, Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico City), The Knockdown Center (Queens), MATA Festival, Ecstatic Festival at Merkin Hall, Prototype Festival at HERE Arts Center, Nief-Norf Summer Festival (Knoxville), wasteLAnd (LA), Edmonton Fringe Festival; The Stone (NYC), Resonanzraum (Hamburg), French Quarter Festival (New Orleans), Celebrity Series of Boston, Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid); NyMusikk Bergen (Norway), and the World Saxophone Congress in St. Andrews, Scotland. She has collaborated with ensembles such as Decoder, Yarn|Wire, Contemporaneous, Loadbang, International Contemporary Ensemble, Stony Brook Contemporary Players, Ogni Suono, Alia Musica Pittsburgh, Versipel, Hypercube, Patchwork Duo, thingNY, Aperture Duo, and Nief-Norf, working most frequently with her four main ensembles: thingNY, New Thread Quartet, Hypercube, and Popebama, as a core performer and composer.
Rogers is a core member and co-artistic director of the ensembles thingNY, New Thread Quartet, HYPERCUBE, and Popebama, and has performed with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Talea, Music from Copland House, and wild Up.
Rogers is a faculty member and Co-Chair of the Manhattan School of Music Contemporary Performance Program and Co-Artistic Director of the Tactus Ensemble. From 2006-2017, Rogers was production manager at Peermusic Classical, located in midtown Manhattan. She served as board member of the Music Publisher’s Association from 2013-2017. Founded in 1895, the MPA is the oldest music trade organization in the United States.
